...Transylvania have formed an alliance with Austria …
Years: 1594 - 1594
November
...Transylvania have formed an alliance with Austria in defiance of Ottoman authority.
Báthory, acting on the advice of his foreign counselor Alfonso Carrillo, has reversed the traditional policy of Transylvania (i.e., to play off the Ottoman sultan against the Holy Roman emperor and thereby preserve Transylvanian de facto independence) and adopted an anti-Turk position.
Although this policy shift had provoked a rebellion, which will not be suppressed until 1595, he nevertheless joins the princes Aron of Moldavia and Michael the Brave of Wallachia in the alliance against the Turks in 1594.
Locations
People
Groups
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Wallachia, Principality of
- Ottoman Empire
- Bosnia, Ottoman eyalet of
- Hungary, Royal
- Croatia, (Habsburg) Kingdom of
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Transylvania (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
